Cressetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.

発音

• enPR: krĕs′ĭt
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA: /ˈkɹɛs.ɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA: /ˈkɹes.ɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɹes.ət/
• (India) IPA: /ˈkɾɛ(ː)s.ɪʈ/
• 韻: -ɛsɪt
• ハイフネーション: cres‧set

名詞

cresset (plural cressets)

1. A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
   1. (chiefly historical) A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.
      • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [C4], verso, lines 728–729:

        Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light

      • a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees’ Heads, on the coast of Cumberland”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 316, column 2:

        And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength;

   2. (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
      • 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII

        We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far

参考

• brazier, fire basket

Further reading

• “cresset”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Secrest, resects, secrets

語源

Borrowed from Old French crasset, cresset, possibly from a West Germanic language.

発音

• IPA: /krɛˈsɛt/, /ˈkrɛ.sɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt, -ɛsɛt
• ハイフネーション: cres‧set

名詞

cresset (plural cressettes)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) cresset (metal cup filled with pitch)

派生した語

• English: cresset

参照

• “cresset, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

動詞

crēsset

1. (rare, poetic, syncopated) third-person singular pluperfect active subjunctive of cernō